Part 9 (2/2)
”Never mind; sit still! You're very polite, but I don't know if you need always use your best manners”
”I don't know if I do,” Jie now But don't you like et what Ipartner”
”You are a partner,” Jim declared ”In fact, you're a reave him a smile ”Thank you! But you mustn't feel this bad luck too much You've met worse”
”Much worse, but it was in the North, where we knee were up against and had nothing to lose It's different now; I've staked all I've got on this undertaking So has Jake; and then you have joined us I hate to think about your going back to the city broke”
”Oh,” said Carrie, s broke We ood”
”We'll try; but that's another thing I don't knohy you're so confident”
Carrie studied him with a twinkle of amusement ”I am confident
You're not a quitter, and it's wonderful what one can often do by just staying with a thing!”
”The trouble is, you can't stay with this particular job when your one That's the difference between it and placer es to pay, and could stop and root up the tundra until we froze, and when our ht out”
”But you'll stay until every dollar is gone”
Jiht be prudent to pull out before; but I rather think I'll hold on”
”Ah,” said Carrie, ”that's what I like! You're bracing up; I knew you would! However, I o back Breakfastcomforted Carrie did not know much about theIn a sense, the thing was illogical; the difficulties would not vanish because she did not see them It was ridiculous for hilanced at Carrie as they went along She was pretty and her i; but soirl She was a partner whom he trusted and a staunch friend Yet he had been annoyed by Davies' stopping at the camp and had felt relieved when she told hiave up the puzzle and helped Carrie with breakfast when they reached the caot to work and did not come back until supper was ready Jake and he had not ti to be said, and when the men went off to fish, Ji the pine-needles close by The shadows had crept across the camp and the hollows between the rows of trunks were dark The snow had changed from white to an ethereal blue and the turmoil of the river hardly disturbed the calm
”Have you any notion yet what started off the wall?” Jake asked
”I have,” said Ji post broke and let down the stones”
”So far, we are agreed But do you knohy the post broke? We used good logs”
”I don't know Although itto find out
We can't have this kind of thing happening again”
Jake nodded ”Perhaps I have got a clew When Davies was here, he said he'd like to go fishi+ng and so”
”That is so,” Jim said with a puzzled look
”The tho moved first were the boys we alloere not quite sure about I don't know if it ot to the river, they and Davies lost the others”